Lynn Stern Photographs

In Cleaving Space, as in the Apparition series, I am working with the idea of repetition. Here, I’m using two vertically stacked glass cubes placed behind the scrim, with different angles and spacing between them.

The front edges of the cubes push forward – like prows appearing suddenly out of empty space – while the streaks of light and shadow in the scrim pull back and out beyond the frame of the image.

To achieve this feeling of tension between forward thrust and lateral pull, the sides and rear edges of the cubes cannot appear as shadows, but must disappear within the scrim.

Cleaving Space Series
32 archival inkjet pigment prints; edition of 4 plus 1 artist’s proof; sizes vary from 34” x 34” to 48” x 32”